The bride is a graduate of West Texas Christian School. She graduated from Amarillo College with an associate of arts degree in English and from West Texas A&M University in Canyon with a bachelor of arts degree in English. She attended the University of Granada in Granada, Spain, and graduated from Texas Tech University in Lubbock with a master of arts degree in romance languages and literatures with an emphasis in Spanish. She plans to teach Spanish at the college level.

The groom is a graduate of Tivy High School in Kerrville. He graduated from Texas Tech University in Lubbock with a bachelor of science degree in mathematics and a master of science degree in applied mathematics. He is a doctoral candidate in the field of applied mathematics at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. He is a SAMSI graduate fellow for the Center for Research and Scientific Computation at North Carolina State University.